This extension lets you add annotations to files. It currently only supports images but can later be used to add annotations to audio and video files too. It is an improvement on the ImageAnnotator gadget and currently has a similar feature set.
Text and photos and videos are great, but today we don't have the same kind of pervasive hyperlinking in media that makes disappearing down a Wikipedia clicking journey both fun and educational. - From T133526
To achieve this FileAnnotations might benefit by being more structured than ImageAnnotator. Commons has guidelines on what kind of annotations are considered good and what format makes sense given a particular context. Encouraging these guidelines through the user interface, and making it easier to do the right thing, while still keeping the contribution process simple is important.
Users and use cases[edit]Personas are we targeting and what their use cases might be.
The guidelines on Commons on what makes a good annotation are helpful for users, but we need to find guidelines on what is helpful for the entire system. I feel that in some cases a link to Wikidata item would serve better than a Wikipedia article or a commons category. The way we display the link to the Wikidata item can make us reach closer to our goal too (I am thinking something like Popups and not just a plain link).
Given the current use cases we can roughly divide the types into the following:
Type Source Remarks Do we want it? Image Commons Yes Category Commons Category Will structured meta-data have any affect on this? Yes Thing Wikidata or Wikipedia item While adding we need to show the user only the Wikidata result if there is one. Its easy enough to find out WP entries from there, but not the other way around.Once a Wikipedia article is added, adding more languages needs to be supported while editing.
Yes External link ? Location Some geo template? This is not for the location of the image (that could already be in the EXIF data) but the location of places in it. Might be helpful in skyline type photos. ? Text This is specifically for transcribing text in images. Not sure if it needs to differ from the Wikitext option. Yes Wikitext We could either have this as a separate type, or have the "[[ ]]" icon for each type and let power users edit the Wikitext of pre-decided types too. Yes, but in what form?These types need not be explicitly chosen by the editor but can be inferred and then displayed accordingly. The interface however could however encourage links over text.
Possible solutions[edit]How will a reader find out that there are annotations on a particular file?
How can we encourage annotating files, both readers and editors?
How should the actual annotating process work?
We could show the different annotation types with a description first and then open a different dialog based on type. I am not to keen on this as it makes the process longer, but it might be easier for beginners to understand what each type is good for.
We could alternatively open a dialog with tabs, similar to the "Insert media" dialog in VE, and give tabs for each type. The Wikitext tab could always be populated, no matter the type, so that power users can edit if they need to.
Flash annotations on file after the page has loaded
Alternatively, the annotations could remain visible till the user doesn't hover and un-hover over the image once
While on an article the annotation boxes could flash as you scroll by images
When images are in certain categories like people, places, we can encourage the reader to add annotations
When an annotation is a Commons category, it could show thumbnails of images from that category and a link to see more
When the annotation is to a Wikipedia article we could show a Hovercards-like interface
When the annotation has a geo template we can directly render a map, that can be linked to OSM or our own maps
When the annotation is to a Wikidata item, we can show the main image and description along with anything we can link to
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